I find myself in the all too familiar situation of sitting in Geisel with a final in 2 days and not enough energy to study. Here's a song expressing my feelings of structural biochemistry, to the tune of that really sweet song from the san diego zoo commerical (i think the star website has a link to it if you havent heard it).

An Ode to Summer Structural Biochemistry
"Maybe its the hot weather
How much it makes me sweat
Eyes, so sore from reading late
The hardest topic yet
Maybe its the beta sheets
Or the ten pages on DNA
All I know is that all year long
Finals dont go away"

 

ComicCon with Jon today!! Fun stuff, with lots of crazy things to see. My girlfriend Jessica Alba was there, but sadly the line into her presentation was incredibly long, so I guess I'll just have to meet up with her later tonight. Jon and I settled for such other celebrities as Mark Hamil, The Wayans Brothers, and that one dude who played Hulk in the 80's. The funniest sight of the day was seeing Jon spill gatorade on himself, so it looked like he peed pink in his pants. See pics at my other site.

At the lab . . .
Me: "Damn, they requested something i have no idea how to make. Hey Brian, how do you make YM + adeninine/methionine/leucine + galactose plates?"
Brian: "Well, galactose is 4%"
Me: "Oh, ok . . . so how do i make them?"
Brian: "Hmm, well, hey do you guys know how to make galactose plates?"
Renee: *shrugs*
Christine: "You're making galactose plates?"
Brian: "Yeah, I need them because *insert scientific jargon* didnt work."
Christine: "Why dont you just *insert scientific gobbledygook* cuz making galactose plates is a real pain in the ass and you'll only use a few of them anyway."
Brian: "Oh, ok. I guess you dont need to make them anymore"
Me: "Score one for Mike!!!"

And the 56 opened this week. I was driving down it for the first time, and when I realized how quickly I made it to the 5, i was flooded with memories of being trapped on the backroads in traffic, and a tear came to my eye. After 2 long years, I no longer needed to spend half my life sitting in the car, I could sleep in an extra 1o minutes until the sun actually came out, no more stoplights that turn red so 1 car can get through, no more merging 100 cars into one lane, no more tractors driving 10 mph down a one lane road, no more stop signs, no more dust, no more pain, there is hope, there is light, the world is wonderful and just afterall!!! Then I realized I was at UCSD and had to go to class and work.

I finally got an email with my student TA evaluations. A grand total of 4 people evaluated me, and I got pretty good scores considering I was making things up as I went along. The funniest rating was for "Stimulates your curiosity", which I got a 5 for. If you ever need youro curiosity stimulated, you know who to see. "This ta is one of the best ive had, he helped prepare in the worst of times."

I also added a few more pictures of my dogs in case you havent seen them already.

Whoo!! I finally got a digital camera!! Yee haw. Of course, there's a 2 week return policy, so its possible we wont hang on to this one, but for now, i might actually have a reason to update my lost and forsaken "other" website!!

Here's a pic of my amazingly handsome dog calvin. Not looking at the camera, but he had red eyes in all the other ones.

Saturday I finally got to go to Petco Park to see the Padres!!! Awesome awesome experience. The place is beautiful and it feels great just to walk around taking in the surroundings. The game itself was cool too. I got to see just about everyone; nevin, giles, klesko . . . greene got some of the hugest pops surprisingly. Adam Eaton pitched a no hitter through 7 innings, which was pretty cool. The best part of the night came in the 9th . . . Trevor Time!!! I've never had the pleasure of seeing Trevor Hoffman pitch, even back at Qualcomm, but seeing him was even cooler than i thought. At the end of the eighth, us up by 1 run, i knew he was coming in and so did everyone else. Then, all of a sudden, Hell's Bells start ringing and the whole place erupts. His music starts playing, and he comes out, running onto the field with fire all over the screens. It was amazing. Then he starts pitching, first guy up, out with a flyball. 2nd guy up, out just as quickly. The bells start ringing again and everyone gets on their feet for the last out. Groundball, to first, we win!!! The whole place is jumping and cheering, high fiving as the fireworks go off. Whew. Amazing. We're lucky to live in san diego, with some of the best baseball fans anywhere.

Afterwards they had fireworks, which were cool too.

Yesterday we went up to seaworld, and saw fireworks there, which were pretty good also. And I got to go on their new Atlantis ride, which was decent. You would expect the big drop into the water to be the climax, like every other good ride, but for some reason it turned out that it was the first drop. When we were about to go down it, i expected it to be a teaser, with a slight fall and then a turn, so i had my arms up in the air, yelling in a joking manner when i look down and realize "Oh great . . .". So yeah, that was fun.

I watched Casablanca for the first time since honors american literature. Its now been placed among my top 5 alltime favorite movies.

Currently listening to: Switchfoot!

Summer randomness!!

I was watching Wimbledon today, and maria sharapova is pretty good. She's pretty hot too, and there are obvious comparisons to anna kournikova (russian, blonde, high rank as a teen). The thing about tennis is that as far as i can remember whichever player i root for always seems to lose, which is pretty discouraging. But, sharapova won today so maybe the trend will change.

Wow, that one dude on jeopardy won again x2 (21 days). Seriously, the other players are never even close to this guy.

Hey, ma$e is back!! How cool is that?

Currently listening to: New Found Glory
Cheesy Song of the Day: Mariah Carey - Thank God I Found You (actually a really good song)

Oh, summer classes started this week too. Structural Biochemistry with Buehler, who doesnt seem all that bad despite what cape says. Chang is in my class too.

Wanna hear about some productivity? I was playing smackdown, and beat the big show (biggest guy in the game) with rey mysterio (smallest guy in the game) !!! Whooo!!! Go me!!!